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While Judge Stephen Warner opted against a custodial sentence, he warned Massoud he should recognise “just how close he came to going to prison today” and condemned his actions as “thoroughly irresponsible”.

“Driving your vehicle with passengers in it, you mounted the kerb and went on the footpath,” he said while delivering his sentence.

“There were pedestrians there and on the second occasion certainly they were very clearly put in direct physical risk of serious injury.”

Massoud is already serving an eight-month suspended prison sentence since November last year for drug-related offences and was given a six-month sentence suspended for two years today.

Judge Warner made it clear to Massoud if he reoffends or appears before a court within the next two years he will serve both suspended sentences consecutively.

His liberty came with a number of strict conditions, which the judge said reflects the seriousness of his actions.

For dangerous driving, the judge gave the following conditions:

A curfew, electronically monitored, for the next six months between 9.30pm and 6.30am

Exclusion from any on-licence premise for six months

Unpaid work for 100 hours

Extended driving test

An order to forfeit his car

For refusing a breathalyser test, he was given a suspended seven-day prison sentence.